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A BLUE AND WHITE DECORATED SQUARE PORCELAIN                             A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN JAR
BOTTLE                                                                  Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 19th century
Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 18th century                                The baluster form, decorated in shades of underglaze blue with
With straight sides and flat shoulder centered by a tapered             double-lined roundels of birds framed in clouds above stylized
spout with a rolled lip, each rectangular face painted in shades        waves, and large floral sprays, the neck and base with a single blue
of underglaze blue with abbreviated landscapes, covered with a          line, covered with a transparent glaze
transparent glaze with a slight bluish cast                             With wood storage box
With wood storage box                                                   10 3/4in (27.4cm) high
6 1/4in (16cm) high
                                                                        US$10,000 - 12,000
US$12,000 - 15,000

For other square bottles painted with blue-and-white landscape
decoration, see Yi Yong-jin, Koryo sidae hyangno / Incense burners
of the Goryeo dynasty, ext. cat. (Seoul, 2013), pl. 93; and Sunu Choi,
The World’s Great Collections Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 2: National
Museum of Korea, Seoul, (Tokyo/San Francisco, 1982), nos. 254 and
260.

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